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Ihu vegarmohi
איהו וגרמוהי חד
“He and His vessels are one” (ihu vegarmohi)
Or Ein Sof is wholly one with the vessels of Atzilus (“He and His vessels are one”), a union below His oneness with Chochmah (“He and His life-forces”); the created vessels below Atzilus are not.
Where it’s explained
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8, ¶9In Atzilus “He and His vessels are one,” even the vessels; Beriah is something from nothing, a separate created thing, and even the vessels of the ten Sefiros of Beriah, Yetzirah and Asiyah are created, so that He and His vessels are not one in them.
ואפילו הכלים דע״ס דבי״ע הם נבראים ולאו איהו וגרמוהי חד בהון
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 8, ¶7A person’s mind can stop his speech but cannot move his thought, because thought is one with the mind and intellect; in the Zohar this is “He and His vessels are one in them.” “His life-forces” refers to Chochmah, Binah and Daas of Atzilus: Ein Sof, though exalted above Chochmah, unites with it, “He is the knowledge and the known.”
שהיא אחדות א׳ עם המוח ושכל האדם ונק׳ בזוהר איהו וגרמוהי חד בהון כי הנה וחיוהי קאי על בחי׳ חב״ד דאצי׳
- Likkutei Torah, Shabbos Shuvah 2, ¶4Havayah is Atzilus, G‑dliness, where He and His life-forces and His vessels are one; yet all of Atzilus bears no comparison to the very essence of Ein Sof and is only a “name.” That Or Ein Sof becomes ten Sefiros is a contraction, not only in the vessels but even in the lights.
הגם שבחי׳ הוי׳ הוא בחי׳ אציל׳ שהוא אלקות דאיהו וחיוהי חד בהון ואיהו וגרמוהי כו׳ אעפ״כ אין ערוך אליו לעצמיות ומהות א״ס ב״ה
- Torah Ohr, Bo 1, ¶11The souls and angels of Beriah are created from nothing and are not G‑dliness as Atzilus is; yet the prophets drew Or Ein Sof to be clothed in them in complete union, as in the vessels of Atzilus, so that He is called by them, Havayah Tzevaos, as body and soul are called one man. The power for this came from sovev.
ואעפ״כ הנביאים המשיכו שיתלבש בהם אור א״ס ב״ה בתכלית היחוד כמו שנתלבש בכלים דאצי׳ עד דאיהו וגרמוהי חד
Stated differently
What “His vessels” (garmohi), as against “His life-forces” (chayohi), refers to
נמצא עיקר השראת והתגלות אור א״ס הוא בחכמה עילאה ונק׳ איהו וחיוהי חד וע״י החכמה נמשך ומתלבש במדות ונק׳ איהו וגרמוהיOr Ein Sof unites even in Atzilus only by first being clothed in Chochmah: its main dwelling is in Chochmah Ila’ah, “He and His life-forces”; through Chochmah it is clothed in the middos, “He and His vessels.”
ואיהו וגרמוהי קאי על בחי׳ אותיות המחשבה שכשמתלבש אור א״ס ב״ה בבחי׳ המחשבה שהוא בחי׳ גרמוהיWhen Or Ein Sof is clothed in Chochmah it is “He and His life-forces”; “He and His vessels” refers to the letters of thought, garments, and even when clothed in them He is one with them.
כי חיוהי הוא האור והחיות הנמשך מא״ס ב״ה להיות מתלבש בבחי׳ חסד והנה החסד נק׳ דרועא שהוא אבר וכלי לאור וחיות זה“His life-forces” are the light and life drawn from Ein Sof to be clothed in Chesed; Chesed, “the arm,” is the limb and vessel for that light, and He and His attribute of Chesed are utterly united: these are the 248 limbs of the King.
פי׳ חיוהי אורות וגרמוהי כלים הכל חד בהון“His life-forces” are the lights and “His vessels” are the vessels, all one in them; as Gedulah and Gevurah of Atzilus are wholly united, “Yours, Havayah, is the greatness.” On Shabbos Beriah, Yetzirah and Asiyah rise to the level of Atzilus, the world of tikkun.
Whether the souls of Israel, who “arose in thought,” are rooted at the level of His vessels (thought as a garment; the vessels of Atzilus) or in the essence of Chochmah Ila’ah, “His life-forces”
וא״א להיות העלאה כזו מצד נשמותיהם שעלו במחשבה בלבד שהוא בחי׳ לבוש הנפשThe soul descends into a body to be raised from “He and His vessels” to “He and His life-forces”; this cannot happen from the souls themselves, which arose only in thought, a garment of the soul, like letters of thought that can be exchanged.
דהנשמות שרשן מפנימית הכלים. והעליי׳ בבחי׳ האורThe souls are rooted in the inner vessels, and their ascent to “holy” is into the light above the vessels of Atzilus, from “He and His vessels” to “He and His life-forces”: Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah of Atzilus are lights to Beriah–Asiyah but vessels to Chayah, Chochmah Ila’ah.
והיינו לפי שנש״י עלו במחשבה דהיינו בעצמיות חכמה עילאה דאצי׳ בחי׳ והחכמה מאין תמצא ממשOr Ein Sof clothed in Binah and the middos of Atzilus is “He and His vessels”; its union with Chochmah Ila’ah is “He and His life-forces,” above it. The souls of Israel arose in thought, the very essence of Chochmah Ila’ah, so through descending into Asiyah they can draw that Chochmah into Beriah–Asiyah.
Main sources
Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 30, ¶12Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8, ¶9Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 10, ¶3Likkutei Torah, Pekudei 1, ¶10Likkutei Torah, Yom Kippur 3, ¶3Torah Ohr, Yisro 7, ¶11Torah Ohr, Yisro 7, ¶13Torah Ohr, Bo 1, ¶11
Where it appears
In 144 paragraphs of 89 maamarim.
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 9 ¶2
- Likkutei Torah, Bechukosai 6 ¶1
- Likkutei Torah, Chukas 8 ¶13
- Likkutei Torah, Chukas 9 ¶13
- Likkutei Torah, Pinchas 3 ¶4 ¶15
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 3 ¶2
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 7 ¶4 ¶13 ¶15 ¶32 ¶35 ¶37
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 7 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 8 ¶2
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 16 ¶7
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 16 ¶7
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 22 ¶24 ¶27
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 23 ¶8
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 7 ¶34 ¶35
- Likkutei Torah, Va’eschanan 5 ¶16
- Torah Ohr, Bo 1 ¶4 ¶6 ¶7 ¶11
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 8 ¶7 ¶8
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 18 ¶12
- Likkutei Torah, Behar 2 ¶12 ¶19
- Likkutei Torah, Acharei 3 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Behar 3 ¶18
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 12 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Rosh Hashanah 3 ¶2
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 17 ¶8
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 17 ¶6 ¶13 ¶26
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 21 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 42 ¶1 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 11 ¶2
- Torah Ohr, Lech Lecha 4 ¶2 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8 ¶3 ¶9 ¶12 ¶13 ¶15 ¶20
- Likkutei Torah, Haazinu 3 ¶39
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 41 ¶16
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 22 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Eikev 2 ¶25 ¶33
- Likkutei Torah, Emor 6 ¶12
- Likkutei Torah, Masei 5 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 7 ¶16
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 33 ¶3
- Torah Ohr, Bereishis 3 ¶5 ¶7 ¶12 ¶17 ¶21
- Torah Ohr, Vayeishev 2 ¶6 ¶23
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 5 ¶1
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 12 ¶4 ¶16
- Likkutei Torah, Chukas 3 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 2 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 6 ¶3 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 2 ¶6
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 7 ¶1 ¶2
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 30 ¶12
- Torah Ohr, Mishpatim 5 ¶11 ¶22 ¶31
- Torah Ohr, Mishpatim 6 ¶4 ¶8
- Torah Ohr, Vayeitzei 1 ¶4 ¶23
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 9 ¶1 ¶12
- Likkutei Torah, Balak 2 ¶10 ¶34
- Likkutei Torah, Nasso 7 ¶13
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 25 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Va’eschanan 9 ¶3
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 16 ¶5 ¶23 ¶24
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 7 ¶9 ¶10 ¶11 ¶13
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 3 ¶14 ¶18
- Likkutei Torah, Shabbos Shuvah 2 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Vayikra 5 ¶3 ¶4
- Torah Ohr, Terumah 1 ¶3 ¶5
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 2 ¶7 ¶14 ¶15
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 10 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 19 ¶8
- Likkutei Torah, Bechukosai 2 ¶16 ¶24
- Likkutei Torah, Chukas 2 ¶15 ¶38
- Likkutei Torah, Emor 2 ¶22
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 3 ¶6
- Likkutei Torah, Yom Kippur 3 ¶2 ¶3 ¶12
- Torah Ohr, Megillas Esther 5 ¶2
- Torah Ohr, Noach 4 ¶10
- Torah Ohr, Terumah 2 ¶6
- Torah Ohr, Va’eira 3 ¶5
- Torah Ohr, Va’eira 5 ¶36
- Torah Ohr, Vayeira 1 ¶2 ¶6 ¶10 ¶24
- Likkutei Torah, Balak 1 ¶19
- Likkutei Torah, Emor 5 ¶10
- Likkutei Torah, Shemini 2 ¶3
- Torah Ohr, Terumah 3 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 29 ¶18
- Likkutei Torah, Eikev 4 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 5 ¶10
- Likkutei Torah, Tazria 6 ¶19
- Torah Ohr, Beshalach 6 ¶6
- Torah Ohr, Noach 3 ¶16
- Torah Ohr, Vayeitzei 5 ¶5
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 5 ¶10
- Likkutei Torah, Pekudei 1 ¶10 ¶11
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